# teller
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtɛlə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈtɛləɹ/
* Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: tell‧er

### Noun

teller (plural tellers)
* A person who tells stories.
* (banking, chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
    Synonym: cashier
* (more generally) A cashier at any place of business.
** 2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107:In the case discussed above, for example, the employee who stole money did so by waiting until another teller was on break, then logging on to that teller's register, ringing a “no sale,” and taking the cash.
** 2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories:The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.
** 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 60:The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.
* (banking) Synonym of automated teller machine
    Synonyms: cash machine, ATM
* A person who counts the votes in an election.

#### Derived terms

* automated teller
* automatic teller
* automatic teller machine
* fortune-teller

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* retell

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

teller
* nominative plural of tel

## Dutch
### Etymology

From tellen +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlər
* Hyphenation: tel‧ler

### Noun

teller m (plural tellers, diminutive tellertje n)
* (mathematics) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
* someone who counts
* any device that displays numerical information such as a Geiger counter or a tachometer

#### Antonyms

* noemer (“denominator”)

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: pembilang (“(mathematics) numerator”) (semantic loan)
* → Indonesian: teller (“someone who counts”)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teller, from Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”). Standard spelling retain double l to avoid confusion with word teler.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tel‧ler

### Noun

teller (plural teller-teller)
* (banking) teller: a bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
    Synonym: juruwang (Standard Malay)

### Further reading

* “teller” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From the verb telle.

#### Noun

teller m (definite singular telleren, indefinite plural tellere, definite plural tellerne)
* (arithmetic) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)

##### Antonyms

* nevner (“denominator”)

##### Derived terms

* geigerteller
* turteller

##### Related terms

* brøk

#### See also

* teljar (Nynorsk)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

teller
* present tense of telle

### References

* “teller” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Turkish
### Noun

teller
* nominative plural of tel